Now Ashes, I don’t know if you can go from henchperson to completely dominating vixen in one swoop. I think the best way would be to enter a relationship of mutual lackeyism, then once you have your fellow lackey feeling like they are taken care of, you gradually exert (sp) your vixen ways. That way your lackey will be lulled into a false sense of security, and be trained in the finer points of lackey-dom at the same time. Once you have him wrapped around your little finger, then you start with the real demands. Unless he just wants a dominating vixen right from the start, in which case, you are fine as frog hair.
Scout, being the queen of your own castle is good for a while, but if you don’t have someone to boss around, do you have real power? BSMF sounds like he is off to a good start, but still in ordinary old lackey stage. However, if you get him to start risking life, limb, pride, or respect for you, then you have a henchman on your hands.
I loved it, and hated it all at the same time. The dogs weren’t the problem; it was more to do with domestic relations that are Pittable, so I won’t elaborate here. MMP is too fun to burden with that.
Since Sadie is gone, I’m awaiting the arrival of a former foster who we have promised the adopter that we would take in if she could no longer take care of the dog. Pat, the adopter, is now about 257 years old, and Abbie is getting to be a handful.
Pat feeds Abbie gingersnaps to ward off car sickness, and it makes Abbie’s kisses smell like root beer. I always am up for an Abbie facewash.
Okay taxi, I found a recipe or two (well thirty six really) when I searched foodtv.com. I’m going with the Tyler’s Ultimate recipe because I trust him and he’s kinda cute and a little goofy. Which are important skills as a chef.
Well poo, it seems I don’t know how to make a link with the new quick repy thingeys. Ah well, anybody reading this, who actually cares, is smart enough to self-linkify.
Puggy, he doesn’t wear a little diaper though, right? And you wouldn’t put a little ruffled cover on the diaper if he did, right? Because that would just be too degrading and might explain why he’d recently started licking the electrical outlets, taunting lions, and cleaning shot guns whilst likker’d up.
I’ve always got tp nearby the commode but I keep it in a cabinet. Because tp isn’t exactly for interior decoration y’know. Yes, there’s a roll of it right there on the spindle, but that one’s okay. I don’t know why.
Hey! What’s going on here? I crossed my legs and managed to submit my post with my foot and then tried to fix it and it disappeared. Hmph!
Theodore, I do not believe I would be good at subtle working up to domination. Unless you count appreciating the merits of suede vs. velvet for a cat o’ nine tails (I prefer velvet because I’m extra sweet that way). So I’ll go straight to vixen and the other lackies and henchpersons will just have to recognize my natural wonderfulness. Or else.
Well, I hope I’m here tomorrow. Seems I gotta got to Olive Garden for dinner. The youngest daughter of The Factotrix turned 21 today. Then we are going out to get her all drunked up.
Honestly, I’m not looking forward to any of it. Especially dinner. Maybe I’ll hust gorge myself on their tiramisu. It’s about the only edible thing on the menu.
And I must of missed a post somewhere, because we suddenly started talking about dogs wearing tu-tus. I’m gonna haveta study this MMP again real close in the morning.
Having met the lovely and charming scoutmyself, I can say with some authority that you have chosen a wonderful representative of us MMP-folk for your first meeting. In fact, if you can’t meet Rue or me, she’s the perfect third option!
Be smarter than I was and take a camera and take pics!
I have nothing on henching or weddings at the moment, but I have 3 sister birthdays coming up in rapid succession. K turns 44 on April 29, baby sister T turns 40 on May 7, and finally J turns 50 on May 9. As kids, that week and a half was the only time we got sick of cake! It won’t happen this year, tho. T is having her party at the bar where she works - I expect it will be unique among celebrations. J’s husband is planning something for her - I think it’ll involve renting a hall like she did for his 50th. K isn’t having a big to-do since 44 is a meh-birthday. K’s daughter just turned 18 yesterday - she’s now an adult, technically. A frightening thought if you knew my niece… :eek:
Veggie soup for dinner tonight! It’s been melding its flavors since I made it yesterday. I’ve also got some brown-and-serve bread to go with it. YUMMMMMM!
I’ve had a bi-polar week and I’m tired as hell from it all. I wish I had a long weekend or something, but I anticipate next week being highly stressful as well.
It started out great. Monday I was informed that not only were they are definitely extending my contract for six months, they were creating a position for me. Not like they’re making me VP or anything, but hey, it’s always nice to know the people you work for want to keep you around, right?
Then Tuesday, I had a horrifying realization. I fscked something up. BIG time fscked it up. I have NEVER messed up at work as badly as I messed this up. They are being nice, but I can’t stop crucifying myself over it. No, nobody died, but I have made myself physically ill from the stress and shame. I have to face them tomorrow. I am so dreading this.
Oh, yay. Way to bring the thread down, Beck. Sorry, people, just call me Eeyore.
I forgot I wanted to ask you a couple of things; 1. FCM, could you link to that potato pancake recipe? I love them, but don’t have a good recipe.
And, 2, who has a good sausage gravy recipe? I have tried this a couple times, and, while perfectly edible, I don’t feel I’ve mastered it. I kind of expect it to have more flavor, somehow. Now, part of the problem might be that I often use turkey sausage, so I don’t have as much grease in the bottom of the pan for flavor. But I’ve tried it with beef sausage, too, and wasn’t crazy about it. (remember, sister won’t eat pork products). Maybe if I fried up some turky bacon and used that grease for flavor. I don’t know. Anyway, suggestions are appreciated.
I’ll come to your house, Susan, but it might take me a while in the bathroom if I have to air dry. Can I borrow a hair dryer?
Here’s the recipe I used. That site has bunches more, so you might want to look at some of the others just in case another tickles your fancy, so to speak. I picked this one because it’s almost identical to the way my Aunt Ronnie used to make them. She fried hers in lard - I didn’t have lard, so I just used shortening. Lard is better.
I noticed that two of your sisters are May babies, and Tauruses (Tauri?) to boot! I’m a May baby (well not such a baby anymore, I’ll be 41) too! May 19th is my special day. I kinda get ripped on the gift thing because Mother’s Day is always a week before my birthday. I’m not too much for “regular” cake. No, I gotta be special (not in the short bus way), and have a real german torte or cheesecake. Those are my favorites.
I’m going to try and remember the camera for my trip…how much you wanna bet I’ll forget it though? Somehow, I always forget my camera.
Did you all just see that? FairyChatMom ranks me up there with Rue! Garshk, I’m flattered.
I thought it was funny when swampy and LifeOnWry were talking about getting together on the 16th, because that’s when we’re getting together. It’d be like multiple chapters of an MMPFest.
This reminds me that I need to charge my camera batteries - Disneyland tomorrow!
I noted the date as well and thought the same thing. My camera batteries are good to go, now I just have to remember to pack it. Swampy is becoming quite the traveling and meeting MMPers man. In two months it will be my turn, then I will have met two! Maybe more if Bumba and Kally can make it. I know, I know, nothing compared to some of you, but y’all live just a teensy bit too far away to make visitin’ an easy thing to do.
Shibb, who says I’m mature? Are you saying I’m stodgy? :dubious:
There is a very good chance that my first MMP meet will be with **Rue ** at TornaDope '05, but I may have bumped into him once or twice and never known it.
Ashes, I wouldn’t say too much more about your whip collection. Although not a big fan myself , you may start to get some odd emails.
Wintermute- here’s to a better day tomorrow, because there is no use worrying about it tonight. Everyone’s allowed a screw up once a month or so.
I’ve met Rue and FairyChatMom and some other folks, like Zappo, who don’t post here much if at all anymore. I’d have met Swampy, too, but FCM had him tied up in the back of her van so he couldn’t make it. Either that or he was scared of me, I forget which.
No, not at all. I’m certain that you are stunning and possess that certain, je ne sais quois, which makes you all the more alluring. What I actually meant is that you’re so young and yet have a daughter much older than mine. My daughter wants to be a cat when she grows up. Or a scientist or a professional soccer player. It’s a very fluid thing.
I’m still working on perfecting sausage gravy–it’s hard to get the right amount of salt. I’ll let you know my secrets when I get it right. I think you really need to use pork sausage, but I’m kind of a purist. I also don’t think you should use link sausage in sausage gravy, although I still get the link sausage gravy at Elmo’s Diner, because it really is good, it would just be better with non-linky sausage. Mmmmmmmm, biscuits and sausage gravy and scrambled eggs…drool…
I just checked out the scrapple while I was grocery shopping tonight. I thought, “Hmmm, I haven’t had scrapple for a while. Maybe I’ll get some scrapple.” The only kind of scrapple they have is Neese’s, which is probably okay, but it’s not Kirby and Holloway. So I’m reading the ingredients, just to see what kinds of icky things are listed, and y’all aren’t going to believe this (I’m allowed to say “y’all,” cause I live in the South):
One of the ingredients listed is Pork Spleens. :eek:
So what I really want to know is, what’s NOT listed?!
As Og is my witness, I will never eat scrapple again!!
A friend of mine makes perfect sausage gravy. I forget exactly what’s in it (I can get you the recipe if you like), but I think it’s a pound a sausage, a pound of bacon and maybe a pound of ground veal. Then you build from there. We only ever eat just before skiing because if you don’t have some serious activity right after then the blood just siezes up in your veins.
